The author also comments on the fact that while ancient Indian kingdoms recieve barely paragraphs, the Mughal period is often given several chapters while the north-east kingdoms get almost no acknowledgement. This book is a must read for anyone wishing to know more about India’s history and the constant Macaulayism of the education system. One can almost draw a connection, between the whitewashed education, students hating their own civilization and country, and news of university students raising anti-India slogans. Instead of bombarding the reader with his own views, the author instead cites several sources and findings including accounts of foreign travellers to expose NCERT’S deciets. The author has taken out several paragraphs and quotations from NCERT’s history textbooks and analyzed how true they actually are.

A very small fraction was answered with flimsy excuses. One would of course excpect NCERT, being such a reputed organisation to atleast answer 90% of the RTIs but as the author wrote in the intoduction, almost all were answered in a single sentence, that there are no proofs. The author, after reading the history ncert books, had filed around 200 RTIs (under the right to information act) demanding proofs or references on the basis of which NCERT wrote the inquired paragraphs or extracts. The book can actually be read as a compilation of articles on the controlled history ncert provides to students who trusted it for knowledge. I recently read the book ‘Brainwashed Republic’ by Neeraj Atri. What would that imply for generations being told selective and whitewashed history of their own land? There’s a quote I once read, “A nation is advanced in proportion to education and intelligence among the masses”

Brainwashed republic by neeraj atri